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Sir Winston Churchill. “I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf will. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you can get so sore at yourself that you forget to hate your enemies.” – Will Rogers
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Good morning, everybody! A question: my wife and I have suddenly started getting lots of junk mail, which must mean our direct-mail opt-out expired. I went to this site:
https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/proto1.php
but they want a credit card # in order to register me. I’m a little leery about that. Does anyone have experience here? No worries?
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Woodrow Wilson
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Xion, didn’t you say you were having a twentith anniversary today? If so:
Happy Anniversary!!
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RR,
I recently did that too. It is a little weird. Why do they need a credit card # to quit sending you junk mail?
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RR — I would be more than just a little leery of that offer — they want a credit card number? I didn’t see that on the registration page. Are you sure you aren’t a target of a phishing expedition (fake but real-looking URL that grabs info)?
Be careful on this one.
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One of yesterday’s threads ended with mention of caller id. We bought (on sale and quite reasonable) phones with talking caller id. Now, when the phone rings, it tells us who’s calling. It’s fun and very accurate – it resorts to spelling when it doesn’t know how to pronounce something. Oddly enough, when someone calls from church it says, “Call from Calvary l-u-t-h-e-r-a-n” because it can’t say “Lutheran.”
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Harris: when you go to the url above, which is purportedly the Direct Mail Assn.’ site, and follow the links for direct mail opt-out, you’re directed to give your name and address, and then you create a username/password. At that point, you must enter a credit card #. They offer this explanation:
“The credit card number will be used to authenticate and validate the consumer’s identity through a no-charge transaction. As with many credit card verification programs, consumers may see an authorization pending for 3-7 days, and no charge will be issued to the monthly bill.”
It may well be phishing, I don’t know how to evaluate something like that. I found the site via google search; it wasn’t like I was responding to an unsolicited e-mail. Any lurkers wanna chime in?
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RR: If I came upon that in a website I would run as quickly as one can online. Sounds phishy to me.
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I also think it was Churchill. My wife and I played golf for the first time last summer and played 4-5 times/week all summer. It was great fun and good exercise. It is also great for the attitude. We are not good but manage to get the ball to the hole eventually.
We get an average of 5 credit card apps a day. We have a shredder. Works great! If it is e-mail, the delete button works best. I don’t give credit card #’s unless I originate the correspondence.
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RR: you’re right. Well, this is indeed weird, all the more with the prevalence of phishing operations. (Direct Marketers have been working very hard to put a more positive, less manipulative face to their work).
My best guess, is that the credit card is there to prevent malicious signing up of third parties, say like putting your youth pastor on the Victoria’s Secret mailing list — not that any one WE would know, would do that… Pranks like that and worse have been done. My brother once did sign me up for mailings from a hog butcherer; and a neighbor conveniently went down to the local party HQ and signed me up. The GOP still thinks I’m one of their’s. These things happen, so the professional association wants to keep out of trouble.
And if it’s any relief, with a credit card, were there a spurious charge, you have limited liability — unlike, say, if they used your bank debit card, or worse, your bank account info. That’s when things get really nasty.
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Samuel wins again! Churchill is correct. Enjoy your digital cappucino…
~~@)
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Can we change that order to a digital Pepsi instead?
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I’ve done dma before, but never had to provide a credit card number. I simply had to print, sign, and mail it in. It couldn’t be done completely online because it needed my signature as authorization.
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Harris,
It wouldn’t be much of a prank–this is opting out of junk mail!
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I’m surprised we haven’t discussed this direct Obama quote:
“Look, I got two daughters,” he said, “nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Talk about out of the ballpark left!
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Metanoia,
It’s been discussed, albeit tangentially, on the True Lust Waits thread…
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Cameron: thanks, I’ll check it out.
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Cameron,
There’s also an option to receive certain mailings….
This is the Direct Mailing Association we’re talking about.
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Hey – Anyone seen Coyoteblue around here lately? Did she leave too?
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Hey, what have you all been doing behind my back? Anlir’s gone? and Rdean? Can’t say I’ll miss Rdean, but Anlir was fun until the last few weeks. I know that I would get more than a little snarky if I tortured myself day after day debating with people that I knew would never even come close to my position.
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Coyote Blue was going to make a trip somewhere. But I think she may be back. Haven’t seen her lately.
AJISUUN, I get a little snarky myself at times.
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Yesterday’s thread on the new 17 mile particle accelerator that is going to speed a proton a 99.999991% of the speed of light in search of the God Particle was interesting.
The old E = MC squared states that even a very small amount of mass can create a huge amount of energy as in hydrogen bomb fame. But, you will notice that the new particle accelerator won’t even be able to take a very small amount of mass (even if applying great energy) and accelerate it at the speed of light much less the speed of light squared. Man has his limitations it seems or does he?
Now for the questions of the day from Llamadom.
Has anything ever been accelerated at the speeds greater than the speed of light. If so, what was accelerated, when and how was this acceleration accomplished?
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Llama – I’d think that your question could elicit a lot of humorous responses. Unfortunately, I can’t think of any right now.
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Speaking of leaving WMB:
Oy…
What a lousy past coupla days….
In anticipation of a Big Day on Monday, I had put out all my clothes, lunch, and breakfast so I wouldn’t be late for my Phys Therapy appt at 7:30AM…. Also in anticipation of a big turning club meeting Monday evening where I would have to setup several lathes and take them down, Saturday and Sunday, I carted a coupla lathes to work (which is where our club meets).
So what happens? I wake up at 5:00 and can’t sleep. I finally went to sleep, but I woke up 7:17, and the doctor’s office is at least 15 minutes away…
The day went downhill from there. When I finally arrived at work (very late) the battery backup for the shop computers had died, and the CNC machine was unable to run because it had no network connection. I replaced it with a power strip and all was go..
The guys meet for dinner at 5:00 and the meeting starts at 6:00… so what happens? At 4:00 the Hard Drive dies on the CNC machines PC. No workie… no workie! I’m pulling my hair out because at 6:00 I’ll have 40 people descending on the place and I’ll be elbow deep in this problem instead of helping setup for the turning demonstration.
I never got the call from tech support either. I waited until 6:00 and then gave up. I just skipped dinner and helped setup… I didn’t get away from the shop until 10:45 that night.
The next day was not an improvement. Being pre-occupied with the CNC router stopping production, I displayed a bad attitude for a co-workers special project for getting rid of surplus air compressor, and he got mad at me… I finally overnighted the HD, and got it installed today, but couldn’t find the driver for a network card. It’s the simplest things that are frustrating. Finally I scavenged another network card out of a spare PC at home…
So now that the dust has settled, I’m back to sorting out what needs to be done next. Man that was too stressful. I need to invest in some HD cloning software…
So when Word Press logged me out during a long post, and lost everything I typed up, I was ready to leave World Mag Blog myself…
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MIM, that sounds awful. I hope the rest of the week will be a winner.
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Llama,
When you have a bunch of waves traveling together, you can get what is called a “group velocity.” Physicists have observed that in certain circumstances the group velocity can exceed the speed of light. However, since the group velocity is a net effect, you can’t use it to transfer information or anything useful like that.
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Make it Man,
Please don’t quit! Please don’t quit!
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Mums,
I quit every day…
Name’s Make it Man, and I’m addicted to World Mag Blog…
But if the powers that be don’t fix that logging out problem, I might go on strike!
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Oh, and thanks for the condolences folks. I’m sure the rest of the week will be better… whew!
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MiM, have you tried Firefox? I never, ever get logged out.
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Mommy- use firefox at work and have on occasion been logged out, but only when I clear the cookies.
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I use Firefox at home… I can’t remember if I get logged out there or not. I don’t use it at work because my tech support forum doesn’t like Firefox.
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I don’t lose my cookies on any other website…. Well at least not while I’m trying to post and it’s obvious I’m logged in…
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MIM,
I only lose my cookies on this Wordpress site, not any other Wordpress site, and I am registered at several. I don’t get logged out while posting, but do get randomly logged out (usually once a day) and at least once a week I have to remind WordPress who I am. Firefox user, too.
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In the past day or so I have been logged out several times, occasionally in the middle of a post. It is annoying.
I have found that if I think I will be making a long post, I put it in a word documant on my desktop and then cut and paste it into the post window. That way it doesn’t get lost in the ether.
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I thought losing one’s cookies had a whole different meaning altogether.
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